E Driel
Biographic Data
| ID | 38043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Driel |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Driel |
| SIGNATURE | DRIEL E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7713-6622 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Contact theory and the multiethnic community of Riace, Italy
This article uses the case of Riace, a small multiethnic community in Southern Italy, as a lens to evaluate key theoretical and methodological aspects of the influential Intergroup Contact Theory. The article draws upon 10 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Riace, Italy, a town that for more than 20 years has hosted and integrated refugees into the local community. We analyzed the ethnographic material in light of assumptions underlying intergro…
Gossip, diversity and community cohesion
Gossip is often considered to have negative and exclusionary social consequences within migrant communities and multi-ethnic settings. In contrast, the current research examines whether gossip can contribute to including and integrating people with different ethnic and migration backgrounds into a local community. The empirical study is based on 11 Months of fieldwork research in Riace, a small town in Southern Italy that has hosted refugees and …
Refugee settlement and the revival of local communities
The high influx of migrants and refugees into Italy since the 1990s has resulted, firstly, in a complicated and emergency-based reception system where facilities often lack sanitary and socio-economic services, and secondly, in a negative public attitude toward refugees. An innovative approach to address these challenges, while at the same time combatting poverty and mafia in a depopulated area, was developed in Riace, a town in southern Italy. T…
Local identity and the reception of refugees
A strong local community identity often goes together with the rejection of refugees and other migrants. However, there is also the possibility that such a local identity actually stimulates the reception of refugees. Based on the social identity perspective and our ethnographic fieldwork we examine this possibility in the context of the small town of Riace in Southern Italy. The analysis demonstrates that there is a local identity of hospitality…
Contact theory and the multiethnic community of Riace, Italy
This article uses the case of Riace, a small multiethnic community in Southern Italy, as a lens to evaluate key theoretical and methodological aspects of the influential Intergroup Contact Theory. The article draws upon 10 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Riace, Italy, a town that for more than 20 years has hosted and integrated refugees into the local community. We analyzed the ethnographic material in light of assumptions underlying intergro…
Refugee settlement and the revival of local communities
The high influx of migrants and refugees into Italy since the 1990s has resulted, firstly, in a complicated and emergency-based reception system where facilities often lack sanitary and socio-economic services, and secondly, in a negative public attitude toward refugees. An innovative approach to address these challenges, while at the same time combatting poverty and mafia in a depopulated area, was developed in Riace, a town in southern Italy. T…
Gossip, diversity and community cohesion
Gossip is often considered to have negative and exclusionary social consequences within migrant communities and multi-ethnic settings. In contrast, the current research examines whether gossip can contribute to including and integrating people with different ethnic and migration backgrounds into a local community. The empirical study is based on 11 Months of fieldwork research in Riace, a small town in Southern Italy that has hosted refugees and …
Local identity and the reception of refugees
A strong local community identity often goes together with the rejection of refugees and other migrants. However, there is also the possibility that such a local identity actually stimulates the reception of refugees. Based on the social identity perspective and our ethnographic fieldwork we examine this possibility in the context of the small town of Riace in Southern Italy. The analysis demonstrates that there is a local identity of hospitality…
Refugee settlement and the revival of local communities
The high influx of migrants and refugees into Italy since the 1990s has resulted, firstly, in a complicated and emergency-based reception system where facilities often lack sanitary and socio-economic services, and secondly, in a negative public attitude toward refugees. An innovative approach to address these challenges, while at the same time combatting poverty and mafia in a depopulated area, was developed in Riace, a town in southern Italy. T…
Contact theory and the multiethnic community of Riace, Italy
This article uses the case of Riace, a small multiethnic community in Southern Italy, as a lens to evaluate key theoretical and methodological aspects of the influential Intergroup Contact Theory. The article draws upon 10 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Riace, Italy, a town that for more than 20 years has hosted and integrated refugees into the local community. We analyzed the ethnographic material in light of assumptions underlying intergro…
Gossip, diversity and community cohesion
Gossip is often considered to have negative and exclusionary social consequences within migrant communities and multi-ethnic settings. In contrast, the current research examines whether gossip can contribute to including and integrating people with different ethnic and migration backgrounds into a local community. The empirical study is based on 11 Months of fieldwork research in Riace, a small town in Southern Italy that has hosted refugees and …
Gender Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works) · Ethnic group (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Hospitality (2 works) · Law (2 works)